Case for fast food

ABSTRACT

Disclosed therein is a case for fast food. The case for fast food includes: a case for fast food comprising: upper and lower cases made of eatable grain material, each of the upper and lower cases having a space for holding fast food therein; and a joining part formed on one of the upper and lower cases to join the upper and lower cases with each other, the joining part partially covering the other one of the upper and lower cases so that the upper and lower cases are joined with each other. Since the case holds fast food therein as it is, the case can prevent the fillings inside of the fast food from being split out to thereby maintain the fast food&#39;s clean and simple outward appearance, and allow a consumer to eat the fast food easily and conveniently.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

1. Field of the Invention

The present invention relates to a case for fast food, and moreparticularly, to a case for fast food, which holds fast food therein asit is, thereby preventing the fillings inside of the fast food frombeing spilt out to thereby maintain the fast food's clean and simpleoutward appearance, and especially allowing a consumer to eat the fastfood easily and conveniently.

2. Background Art

Fast food is the term referred to food, such as hamburgers, hotdogs,doughnuts, and so on, sold in a restaurant or store with very quick andsimple preparation in a packaged form for take-out.

Of course, also foods of various kinds, which can be prepared and servedinstantly and quickly, can be called fast food, but, hereinafter, in thepresent invention, foods, for instance, toast, sandwiches, hamburgers,pizza, and so on, which have the fillings inside (a fried eggs, a meatpad, chopped cabbages, a slice of tomato, cucumber pickles, and so on)put therein will be defined as fast food.

Recently, as people are growing more and more interested in health, theconsumption of fast food grows lower, but the fast food, such as toast,sandwiches, hamburgers, pizza, hotdogs and so on, are still in thelimelight of the modern people.

Fast food is in the limelight in that it is easy to eat alone, allowsthe consumer to enjoy tastes of various kinds, and especially can reducetime required to eat as it is simple to eat.

However, even though fast food in the packaged form is filled to thefull with the fillings inside, such as a fried eggs, a meat pad, choppedcabbages, a slice of tomato, cucumber pickles, and so on, since exteriorcoverings of the fast food, such as bread, cookies, pastries, biscuits,and so on, are made in an approximately flat form, when lots of thefillings are put in, the fillings inside are spilt out of the exteriorcoverings, and hence, it is difficult to keep the fast food's clean andsimple outward appearance and inconvenient to eat.

Accordingly, if the packaged fast food is prepared with an eatable caseand fast food, for instance, toast, sandwiches, hamburgers, hotdogs,pizza, and so on, is held in the case, it may prevent the fillingsinside from being spilt out to thereby maintain the fast food's cleanand simple outward appearance, and especially allow the consumer to eatit easily and conveniently.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

Accordingly, the present invention has been made to solve theabove-mentioned problems occurring in the prior arts, and it is anobject of the present invention to provide a case for fast food, whichholds fast food therein as it is, thereby preventing the fillings insideof the fast food from being spilt out to thereby maintain the fastfood's clean and simple outward appearance, and allowing a consumer toeat the fast food easily and conveniently.

To accomplish the above object, according to the present invention,there is provided a case for fast food comprising: upper and lower casesmade of eatable grain material, each of the upper and lower cases havinga space for holding fast food therein; and a joining part formed on oneof the upper and lower cases to join the upper and lower cases with eachother, the joining part partially covering the other one of the upperand lower cases so that the upper and lower cases are joined with eachother.

Here, the upper and lower cases are respectively manufactured through amolding work in such a way that upper and lower spaces are respectivelyformed in the upper and lower cases, and one of the upper and lowercases has a patterned portion formed on the surface thereof.

The grain material may be a single material used when cakes, cookies orbread are made or a composite material, in which various additives aremixed together, and the fast food may be one selected from toast,sandwiches, hamburgers, pizza, and so on.

According to the present invention, the case for fast food can preventthe fillings inside of the fast food from being spilt out to therebymaintain the fast food's clean and simple outward appearance, and allowthe consumer to eat the fast food easily and conveniently, since fastfood is held in the eatable case as it is.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

The above and other objects, features and advantages of the presentinvention will be apparent from the following detailed description ofthe preferred embodiments of the invention in conjunction with theaccompanying drawings, in which:

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a case for fast food according to afirst preferred embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a sectional view of the case of FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 is a sectional view of a case for fast food according to a secondpreferred embodiment of the present invention; and

FIG. 4 is a sectional view of a case for fast food according to a thirdpreferred embodiment of the present invention.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT

Reference will be now made in detail to the preferred embodiment of thepresent invention with reference to the attached drawings.

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a case for fast food according to afirst preferred embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 2 is asectional view of the case of FIG. 1.

As shown in the drawings, the case 100 for fast food according to thefirst preferred embodiment is provided to put fast food (H) therein, andincludes an upper case 110 and a lower case 120.

Here, fast food (H) is the term given to food of a packaged form, forinstance, toast, sandwiches, hamburgers, pizza, and so on, having thefillings inside, such as fried eggs, meat pads, chopped cabbages, aslice of tomato, cucumber pickles, and so on, put therein. However, theright scope of the present invention is not restricted to the above, andequals to the above-mentioned fast foods belongs to the category of fastfood (H).

The upper and lower cases 110 and 120 surround the fast food (H) of thepackaged form, such as toast, sandwiches, hamburgers, pizza, and so on,and is eatable together with the fast food (H). Accordingly, the upperand lower cases 110 and 120 are made of eatable material.

There are various kinds of eatable material, but, in the presentinvention, grain is used for the upper and lower cases 110 and 120. Inthis instance, the grain may be a single material used generally whencakes or cookies are made or a composite material, in which variousadditives are mixed together.

The single material means wheat flour, rice flour, or others, and thecomposite material means mixture that an additive for a taste of roastmeat, an additive for a taste of a barbecue, sources of various kinds,spicy, and so on are added to the single material, such as wheat flour,rice flour, or others.

The case 100 for fast food, which is made of the composite material, mayincrease customer's interest since it can realize various tastes.

The upper case 110 includes an upper space 110 a and the lower case 120includes a lower space 120 a.

The upper space 110 a and the lower space 120 a form a single spacebetween the upper case 110 and the lower case 120 when the upper case110 and the lower case 120 are joined together, so that the fast food(H) can be put in the single space.

In this embodiment, since the upper case 110 and the lower case 120respectively have an approximately hemi-spherical form, a hamburger,which is one of fast foods of various kinds, can be put in the upper andlower spaces 110 a and 120 a as it is when the upper and lower cases 110and 120 are joined together.

If the upper case 110 and the lower case 120 respectively have a blockstructure having an inner space (not shown), toast, sandwiches, hotdogs,pizza, or the like, which is one of fast foods of various kinds, can beput in the inner space of the upper and lower cases 110 and 120 as itis.

Accordingly, the case 100 for fast food according to the presentinvention is not restricted to the form shown in the drawings, and maybe modified in various ways according to kinds, shapes and forms of thefast food (H).

Since the upper and lower cases 110 and 120 are made of the eatablegrain material, the upper and lower spaces 110 a and 120 a can be formedin such a way that inner faces of the upper and lower cases 110 and 120are hollowed out.

However, in this embodiment, since the upper and lower cases 110 and 120are manufactured through molding for mass-production, it is preferablethat the upper and lower cases 110 and 120 are manufactured in a mold insuch a way that the upper and lower spaces 110 a and 120 a are formednaturally in the upper and lower cases 110 and 120.

Particularly, when the upper and lower cases 110 and 120 aremanufactured through the molding work, if the mold has a patternedmolding face, as shown in the drawing, patterned portions 110 b and 120b are respectively formed on the surfaces of the upper and lower cases110 and 120 to thereby enhance the beauty of the outward appearance. Ofcourse, the scope of right of the present invention is not restricted tothe above, and hence, the patterned portions 110 b and 120 b may beomitted.

When the upper and lower spaces 110 a and 120 a are respectively formedin the upper and lower cases 110 and 120 through the molding work, it isnot necessary to form the upper and lower spaces 110 a and 120 a in allof the spaces 110 and 120.

That is, only one of the upper and lower cases 110 and 120 has the spacebut the other is in a closed form. As described above, if the space isformed in only one of the upper and lower cases 110 and 120, the fastfood (H) of a size smaller than the hamburger of a general size may beput in the space.

In the meantime, even though the upper and lower spaces 110 a and 120 aare respectively formed in the upper and lower spaces 110 and 120 andthe fast food (H) is put in the spaces 110 a and 110 b, if there is nojoining means between the upper case 110 and the lower case 120, thefast food (H) put in the case 100 may come out of the case 100 due to aseparation of the upper and lower cases 110 and 120 from each other bythemselves.

Accordingly, in order to prevent the fast food (H) from coming out ofthe upper and lower cases 110 and 120, the case 100 further includes ajoining part 130 for partially coupling and joining an end portion ofthe upper case 110 to an end portion of the lower case 120.

Of course, the joining part 130 does not have a joining force as strongas the upper and lower cases 110 and 120 are not completely separatedfrom each other. That is, it is sufficient that the joining part 130 hasa joining force as strong as the upper and lower cases 110 and 120 arenot separated from each other instantly or by a weak force while thefast food (H) is put in the upper and lower spaces 110 a and 120 a andthe upper and lower cases 110 and 120 face each other.

Particularly, in case that the joining part 130 is constructed in such away that the end portion of the lower case 120 is partially covered byand joined to the end portion of the upper case 110, it makes no doubtthat also the joining part 130 can prevent the fillings inside of thefast food (H) from being spilt out of the case 100.

As described above, since the case for fast food according to thisembodiment holds fast food therein as it is, it can prevent the fillingsinside of the fast food (H) from being spilt out to thereby maintain thefast food's clean and simple outward appearance, and especially allow aconsumer to eat the fast food (H) easily.

FIG. 3 is a sectional view of a case for fast food according to a secondpreferred embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 4 is a sectionalview of a case for fast food according to a third preferred embodimentof the present invention.

In case of the case 100 of the first preferred embodiment, the joiningpart 130 is formed on the end portion of the upper case 110 in such away as to partially cover the end portion of the lower case 210, so thatthe end portion of the lower case 120 is joined to the joining part 130.

However, as shown in FIG. 3, in case of a case 200 according to thesecond preferred embodiment, a joining part 230 is formed on a lowercase 220 in such a way as to partially cover an end portion of an uppercase 210, so that the end portion of the upper case 210 is joined to thejoining part 230.

Furthermore, a case 300 according to the third preferred embodimentadopts a form different from the cases 100 and 200 of the first andsecond preferred embodiments, which respectively have the joining parts130 and 230 being in the form of Korean Alphabet ‘

’. As shown in FIG. 4, a joining part 330 is formed on a lower case 320in the form of English Alphabet ‘U’ in such a way that an end portion ofan upper case 310 is partially inserted and fit into the joining part330, so that the end portion of the upper case 310 is joined to thejoining part 330.

The second and third preferred embodiments illustrated in FIGS. 3 and 4have the same effect as the first preferred embodiment of the presentinvention.

It is not positively necessary to manufacture the upper and lower casesin a separated form. That is, the case may be constructed of a form thatthe upper and lower cases are partially joined together at one sideedge.

While the present invention has been described with reference to theparticular illustrative embodiments, it is not to be restricted by theembodiments but only by the appended claims. It is to be appreciatedthat those skilled in the art can change or modify the embodimentswithout departing from the scope and spirit of the present invention.

1. A case for fast food comprising: upper and lower cases made ofeatable grain material, each of the upper and lower cases having a spacefor holding fast food therein; and a joining part formed on one of theupper and lower cases to join the upper and lower cases with each other,the joining part partially covering the other one of the upper and lowercases so that the upper and lower cases are joined with each other. 2.The case for fast food according to claim 1, wherein the upper and lowercases are respectively manufactured through a molding work in such a waythat upper and lower spaces are respectively formed in the upper andlower cases, and wherein one of the upper and lower cases has apatterned portion formed on the surface thereof.
 3. The case for fastfood according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the grain material is a singlematerial used when cakes, cookies or bread are made or a compositematerial, in which various additives are mixed together, and wherein thefast food is one selected from toast, sandwiches, hamburgers, pizza, andso on.
 4. The case for fast food according to claim 1, wherein the caseis constructed of a form that the upper and lower cases are partiallyjoined together at one side edge.